Connection preemption provides available and reliable services to high-priority connections when a network is heavily loaded and connection request arrival patterns are unknown, o...
Abstract—Application-level protocols used for object delivery, such as HTTP, are built atop TCP/IP and inherit its hostabstraction. Given that these services are replicated for s...
— This paper reverse-engineers backoff-based random-access MAC protocols in ad-hoc networks. We show that the contention resolution algorithm in such protocols is implicitly part...
Ao Tang, Jang-Won Lee, Jianwei Huang, Mung Chiang,...
Wireless sensor networks are expected to be deployed in harsh environments characterized by extremely poor and fluctuating channel conditions. With the generally adopted single-s...
The phenomenal growth in wireless technologies has brought about a slew of new services. Incumbent with the new technology is the challenge of providing flexible, reconfigurable...